Is Cadence Design Systems (CDNS) overvalued or fairly valued?

MarketChacha shows Cadence Design Systems's valuation in context — a forward P/E of about 36.0, a price-to-book of about 14.2 — alongside its revenue and profit growth and whether reported profit converts into operating cash, so you can judge value for yourself. MarketChacha does not issue ratings, price targets, or buy/sell advice.

What is the share price of Cadence Design Systems (CDNS)?

Cadence Design Systems last traded at $338.18 (-1.9% on the day), as of 7/22/2026 — a delayed quote shown for education, not investment advice.

Cadence Design Systems

CDNS · NASDAQ · Technology · United States

$338.18-1.9%

Delayed · as reported by Yahoo Finance · as of Jul 22, 2026, 5:36 PM

Snapshot

TickerCDNS

ExchangeNASDAQ

SectorTechnology

IndustrySoftware - Application

CountryUnited States

Employees15,110

HeadquartersSan Jose, United States

Market cap$93.3B

P/B14.2

Volume962.61K

Websitewww.cadence.com

Filings tracked0

About Cadence Design Systems

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. develops computational, AI-driven software, hardware, and silicon intellectual property products and solutions. The company offers functional verification services, such as Jasper, a formal verification platform; Xcelium, a parallel logic simulation platform; Verisium, a generative AI solution; Palladium, an enterprise emulation platform; and Protium, a prototyping platform for chip verification, as well as digital IC design and sign off products, including In novus platform; and custom IC design and simulation product include Virtuoso, a platform to design and verify analog. It also provides Xcelium logic simulator and other front-end verification and virtual prototyping technologies; controllers and physical interfaces; PCI Express, universal accelerator and compute express links, and multiple memory interfaces; and Ten Silica, a digital signal processor. In addition, the company's design IP portfolio includes serializer/deserializer, peripheral component interconnect, USB, and other standard protocols; and Secure-IC, a solution for embedded security IP. Additionally, it provides System Design and Analysis (SD&A) platform, a solution that enables end-to-end system-level design and verification across chips, packages, PCBs, and electronic systems; Allegro X and Orca X platforms for PCB and advanced packaging; Sigrity X for signal and power integrity; AIR for RF design; Fidelity for computational fluid dynamics; Celsius for thermal and airflow analysis; Clarity 3D solver for electromagnetic and power electronics analysis and simulation; Integrity 3D-IC solution for 3D-IC and multi-chiplet designs; the Optimality Intelligent System Explorer, Reality digital twin, and Millennium enterprise multiphasic platforms; Allegro system design platform; and molecular modeling and simulation solutions and services. The company has a strategic collaboration with NVIDIA. The company was incorporated in 1987 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Profile as reported by Yahoo Finance.

Who owns it

Insiders0.3%
Institutions93.2%
Public & other6.5%

2,114 institutional holders

As reported by Yahoo Finance.

Top holders

Blackrock Inc.9.23%
Vanguard Capital Management LLC6.46%
State Street Corporation4.53%
FMR, LLC3.32%
Invesco Ltd.3.20%
Geode Capital Management, LLC2.86%
Vanguard Portfolio Management LLC2.55%
JPMORGAN CHASE & CO2.37%

Largest institutional holders, as reported by Yahoo Finance (as of 3/31/2026).

What's expected next

Next quarter

Rev $1.6B · EPS 1.95

Est. earnings growth +0.8%

Next fiscal year

Rev $7.0B · EPS 9.40

Est. earnings growth +18.1%

Analyst consensus estimates — not the company's own guidance. As reported by Yahoo Finance.

$262.7552-wk range$416.69

Delayed · as reported by Yahoo Finance

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